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unusual facts about backdraft


Gregory Widen

He witnessed a person killed by an explosive backdraft, which became the basis for the screenplay for the movie Backdraft.


Chicago Fire Department

The Chicago Fire Department cooperated with film director Ron Howard on making the 1991 film Backdraft, starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin and Robert De Niro.

Chinatown, Chicago

Chicago Fire Department Engine 8 Company firehouse, firehouse used in the 1991 Ron Howard film Backdraft

Hollis Resnik

She appeared three times on the television show Cupid, and had a support role in the motion pictures Backdraft and Little Big Top, an independent film.

Journal of Religion and Film

Although "art house," foreign and English language, films such as Babette's Feast and Adam's Apples, have been discussed in the Journal, scholars have also turned their attention to blockbuster films, such as Armageddon and Backdraft.

Opera in Focus

In order to support the puppet opera, Fosser made a living as a set designer and art director in the motion picture industry, working on such films as Ordinary People, Home Alone, Backdraft, Weird Science, Music Box, Damien: Omen II, The Breakfast Club, A League of Their Own and Groundhog Day.

Scenes from the Southside

Two other notable tracks on the record were "The Show Goes On", which was featured in Ron Howard's 1991 film Backdraft, and "Jacob's Ladder", which was written by Bruce and John Hornsby, but is most well known as being a number-one hit for Huey Lewis and the News in March 1987.


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